by Umair Ali | Jul 29, 2023 | Adventure, Bikepacking
It’s the 3rd of July 2019. I take my first pedal stroke outside what has been my home for the past eight months in Tallinn, Estonia. I am excited —what is it like to get lost in the unknown—I wonder as my journey begins. For the next one month, uncertainty,...
by Umair Ali | Oct 24, 2019 | Adventure, Bikepacking
It is the third day of my biking tour; I am on the road with green fields stretched as far as the sight goes. It’s the countryside of Estonia. My legs are moving in a mechanical fashion, and my mind is wandering all over the places. It takes me back to the time I was...
by Umair Ali | May 22, 2018 | Adventure, Bikepacking
“Are you in training?” “No” “Why are you putting yourself in such trouble then?” When I reached Gujjar Khan after covering 258 kilometers in a day, I asked myself the same question. I don’t know the answer. I have never known the answer. Why do I do this? My body was...
by Umair Ali | Mar 28, 2018 | Adventure, Bikepacking
Sweaty palms, drained legs, exhausted breath and 300 kilometres on the odometer. It was day two of my first cycling adventure. “I am an idiot”, I thought as I pushed the pedals on an ever-increasing slope of a kilometre-long bridge near Khanewal. Dec 23, 2017 –...